A colleague in the department is looking for a postdoc in #CompBio. Please RT! #job #spatial #omics

Check out this new listing for an Assistant Professor in my department at Stanford which is an amazing, collaborative department with clinical and basic scientists who study diverse aspects of basic biology and human diseases. Join us! med.stanford.edu/pathology/jo...

“The whole point of AI tools is that I no longer need to retain information in my biological memory. My biological memory is for other things now. Important things. Like my Netflix password” 😂 inpreparation.substack.com/p/opinion-i-...

Opinion: I Was Not Allowed To Type Prompts Into ChatGPT During My Chalk Talk And This Is Discrimination

By Dr. Rachel Simmons, Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University

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Uncovering simultaneous breakthroughs with a robust measure of disruptiveness www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

We’re unwrapping a new method today at @mskcancercenter.bsky.social. Led by Sydney Blattman, Nabih Maslah, and @austinv11.com with @danapeer.bsky.social, @ronanchaligne.bsky.social and @10xgenomics.bsky.social, we present GIFT: Genotyping In Fixed Transcriptomes www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 1/n

Booking is now open for the London Immunity in Health and Disease Symposium, taking place here at the Crick on 14-15 September. Early bird tickets are available until 30 April. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-london...

The London Immunity in Health and Disease Symposium

This two day symposium will highlight cutting edge research in immunity in health and disease.

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Even among healthy people, immune systems operate at different baseline levels. In our new Cell paper, we show that these immune states are stable over time and are associated with the gut microbiome. 🧵 @cp-cell.bsky.social #Immunology #SystemsImmunology

Immune-microbiome coordination defines interferon setpoints in healthy humans @cellcellpress.bsky.social www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... @spitzerlab.bsky.social @ucsfhealth.bsky.social @joelbabdor.bsky.social @pennmedicine.bsky.social

I’m pleased to share our lab’s first paper (a review), highlighting new insights into macrophages, their mechanobiology, and cancer therapeutic potential through both genetic and non-genetic approaches. @jacobsschool.bsky.social. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Engineering macrophages for cancer immunotherapy: emerging insights and therapeutic potential - npj Biomedical Innovations

npj Biomedical Innovations - Engineering macrophages for cancer immunotherapy: emerging insights and therapeutic potential

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The best AI coding tool in the world now has a free course. Not $500. Not $99. Free. Resources have never been more abundant. It's the will to learn that has never been more rare. Stop scrolling. Start building → anthropic.skilljar.com/claude-code...

Automated discernment of prognostic spatial features of #TNBC specific to cell interactions at the tumor border or metastatic site @natcancer.nature.com @noahgreenwald.bsky.social @joleneranek.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s43... www.nature.com/articles/s43... www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Motivated graduates with backgrounds in biological or biomedical sciences, physics, chemistry, mathematics, engineering and/or computer science are invited to apply to our 4-year fully funded PhD programme. Apply by 17 March 2026. www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...

PhD student recruitment

PhD recruitment information.

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Postdoc alert in spatial biology! Building upon our previous work with MSI cancers (e.g. de Vries et al, Nature, 2023), the Voest Group at the NKI is hiring a (fully funded) postdoctoral fellow with strong expertise in spatial cancer biology. Learn more / apply here: www.nki.nl/careers-stud...

If you love human immunology, don't be shy: Expanding the scope of human immunology in the Journal of Human Immunity url: rupress.org/jhi/article/...

Expanding the scope of human immunology in the Journal of Human Immunity

A broader scope for the Journal of Human Immunity.

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📢 We are hiring! 2 #Postdoctoral Positions in #NeuroImmunology in my group at @unisr.bsky.social , fully funded for 2 years. @syis-ecr.bsky.social @yefis-immunology.bsky.social Details below 👇

From Florian Krammer: “We just opened 5 junior group leader positions at the Ignaz Semmelweis Institute in Vienna. We are looking for motivated, enthusiastic young leaders in infectious disease research that complement our current team.” semmelweisinstitute.ac.at/training-car...

Tissue resident colonic macrophages persist through acute inflammation and adapt to aid tissue repair in this work from @lizihegarty.bsky.social, @bainlab.bsky.social, and colleagues: www.mucosalimmunology.org/article/S193...

'In light of the rise of AI in the clinic, teaching medics AI basics has become essential [11]; here, we propose that a similarly reciprocal understanding of biology is important for AI developers to build better models.' journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

The tumour histopathology “glossary” for AI developers

The applications of artificial intelligence (AI) and deep learning (DL) are leading to significant advances in cancer research, particularly in analysing histopathology images for prognostic and treat...

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10 faculty positions! Henry Ford + MSU is seeking up to 10 CANCER researchers to join our Detroit campus, who will collaborate closely with scientists and clinicians across MSU and Henry Ford Health. henryfordmsu.infoready4.com#freeformComp...

Preprint: distinct immune-response patterns between virus-positive and virus-negative Merkel cell carcinoma and their impact on metastasis and checkpoint blockade-response @magdamatusiak.bsky.social @garrypnolan.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

New study by Alissa Trzeciak in The Perry Lab @mskcancercenter.bsky.social is out! The best way to explain the journey is if I compared it to the Director's Cut of the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Let's just say, it wasn't submitted in March 2025. Link: rdcu.be/eoaRm Writeup: edin.ac/3FtYS5B

I'm looking for a postdoc in computational evolutionary phage genomics, with the goal to better understand how protein innovation arises in viruses, at @jagiellonskiuni.bsky.social in Krakow (Poland). Drop me a line if it sounds cool! Deadline: 20.06. Link here: mcb.uj.edu.pl/documents/15...

🚨 Pós-Doc em Imunologia Computacional - Stanford 🇺🇸 Matt van de Rijn e @magdamatusiak.bsky.social buscam 2 pós-docs para projetos que envolvem scRNAseq, transcriptômica espacial e imagens multiplexadas. Salário: US$73-83k Mais detalhes: postdocs.stanford.edu/prospective/... 📩 mmatusia@stanford.edu

🔥 Open postdoc position in human inflammation-driven control of infection! 🔥 Join me at the University of Geneva, Switzerland this summer as I’m moving my Wellcome-funded research activity to the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Medicine! (1/5) Please share!

Recruiting TWO #postdocs in immunology to work with me on the tissue biology of human macrophages @stanford.edu. NIH R01 funded. #scRNAseq #SpatialTranscriptomics #SpatialProteomics. Please RT!

🚀 How I Would Learn Bioinformatics From Scratch 12 Years Later: A Roadmap. If I were starting over, these FREE resources would be my go-to. 🧵👇

'One 2017 analysis found that women who experienced menopause later in life — over age 50 — lived longer than those who experienced it earlier. When estrogen levels drop, such as during menopause, women’s immune systems seem to weaken.' www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/w...

Why Do Women Live Longer Than Men?

By understanding the reasons, scientists hope to help both sexes age better.

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'Bob’s true test of a perfectly structured presentation was that the speaker should be able to ditch the PowerPoint slides and successfully deliver the same message using only the blackboard (...) most talks would indeed be better when boiled down to the bare basics: chalk board, presenter, ideas.'

The ingredients of a great scientific lecture | EMBO reports

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A large dataset we hope is helpful for patients who may have CAPS, an #autoinflammatory condition associated with genetic variants in NLRP3. Lots of "variants of uncertain significance" now have a specific readout from our in vitro assay which can help with clinical diagnosis. rdcu.be/d9iRG

Mechanisms of NLRP3 activation and inhibition elucidated by functional analysis of disease-associated variants

Nature Immunology - Gain-of-function variants in the gene encoding NLRP3 lead to constitutive inflammasome activation and excessive IL-1β production. In this resource, authors perform...

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